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  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,400
    Being too damn lazy to flip the cassette on more than a few epic albums. Had to go back and "relisten" to GNR Lies and Violent Femmes...B sides.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Auto reverse tape decks.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    whispering hands said:

    Annafalk said:

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    Annafalk said:

    dankind said:

    Figuring out that if your rotary or touch-tone phone was broken, you could rapidly depress the line switch seven times for a seven, ten times for a zero, etc., pausing between each number, and make a successful call that way.

    I remember trying that one time, and it actually worked, I was surprised.
    You all know why this is right?
    I think I once knew, but I can't remember right now :)
    Telegraphs. All telephone lines started out as telegragraph cables. Before voice data had been stumbled upon by AGB. ( sort of).. they dialed out stations to which to send telegraphs using Morse code, which was then converted to typed manuscripts. So that just never changed.
    Thank's for taking the time explaining, I have always thought about Morse code as very cool. :)
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Annafalk said:

    whispering hands said:

    Annafalk said:

    whispering hands said:

    Annafalk said:

    dankind said:

    Figuring out that if your rotary or touch-tone phone was broken, you could rapidly depress the line switch seven times for a seven, ten times for a zero, etc., pausing between each number, and make a successful call that way.

    I remember trying that one time, and it actually worked, I was surprised.
    You all know why this is right?
    I think I once knew, but I can't remember right now :)
    Telegraphs. All telephone lines started out as telegragraph cables. Before voice data had been stumbled upon by AGB. ( sort of).. they dialed out stations to which to send telegraphs using Morse code, which was then converted to typed manuscripts. So that just never changed.
    Thank's for taking the time explaining, I have always thought about Morse code as very cool. :)
    I love the sciences in invention. It fascinates me. I can sit for hours pondering how they must have come up with their original hypothesis. But the science behind the telephone, and eventually the television.. just amazes me; what incredible brains to relate such wonder to the world. They ended up being such life altering inventions...
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Snow days barely existed? You had to suck it up and go tripping through a foot or two of snow to go to school. Now they seem to cancel or delay school for just a few inches of snow!
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,963
    deadendp said:

    Snow days barely existed? You had to suck it up and go tripping through a foot or two of snow to go to school. Now they seem to cancel or delay school for just a few inches of snow!

    In Cleveland??? When I was young, you had to get like 5 inches between 3 AM and 6 AM to have a chance at school cancellation.
  • rssesq
    rssesq Fairfield County Posts: 3,299
    you could go skiing for a whole weekend @Killington and you wouldn't be sore as hell the next few days
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,963
    rssesq said:

    you could go skiing for a whole weekend @Killington and you wouldn't be sore as hell the next few days

    The ice at Killington will make you sore no matter what... only ski West...
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    deadendp said:

    Snow days barely existed? You had to suck it up and go tripping through a foot or two of snow to go to school. Now they seem to cancel or delay school for just a few inches of snow!

    We have had entire days canceled here in western Maryland when it was 45 degrees and raining. But the school board will call it the night before simply because snow is in the forecast. It's absolutely ridiculous.
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    mrussel1 said:

    deadendp said:

    Snow days barely existed? You had to suck it up and go tripping through a foot or two of snow to go to school. Now they seem to cancel or delay school for just a few inches of snow!

    In Cleveland??? When I was young, you had to get like 5 inches between 3 AM and 6 AM to have a chance at school cancellation.
    Akron suburb. Not primary snowbelt. Big difference. My daughter goes to school in the secondary snowbelt.

    Lake effect snow screwed stuff up today. We got calls and emails last night warning that school could be closed.
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • RogueStoner
    RogueStoner Sunny AZ Posts: 1,716
    FoxyRedLa said:

    I'm not sure how far back we're remembering but I will throw this out there cuz this takes me back. To a happy place. :heart:

    https://youtu.be/G6Kspj3OO0s


    Thanks for that. Made me smile. :)
  • rssesq
    rssesq Fairfield County Posts: 3,299
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xph8pPJMB8
  • RogueStoner
    RogueStoner Sunny AZ Posts: 1,716
    deadendp said:

    Snow days barely existed? You had to suck it up and go tripping through a foot or two of snow to go to school. Now they seem to cancel or delay school for just a few inches of snow!

    It's the pussification of America. The kids today (most, not all) are whiny, entitled little brats (including my own). Life is way too easy on them.

    Remember encyclopedias? And having to go to the actual library to research for a paper?
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Yup. I'm thankful that my kid still wants to research by book, but she is one of the few.

    I agree. We are raising soft kids who can do for themselves, want everything handed to them and have a heart attack if there is a tough time.

    We put a conscious effort into not trying to "save" our kid but to give her coping strategies, but still... Easier life than what we had.
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,963
    deadendp said:

    Yup. I'm thankful that my kid still wants to research by book, but she is one of the few.

    I agree. We are raising soft kids who can do for themselves, want everything handed to them and have a heart attack if there is a tough time.

    We put a conscious effort into not trying to "save" our kid but to give her coping strategies, but still... Easier life than what we had.

    All true.. but this is also the nature of innovation. We had it easier than the boomers. They had it easier than the WWII generation and so on. Maybe harder isn't necessarily better?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    mrussel1 said:

    deadendp said:

    Yup. I'm thankful that my kid still wants to research by book, but she is one of the few.

    I agree. We are raising soft kids who can do for themselves, want everything handed to them and have a heart attack if there is a tough time.

    We put a conscious effort into not trying to "save" our kid but to give her coping strategies, but still... Easier life than what we had.

    All true.. but this is also the nature of innovation. We had it easier than the boomers. They had it easier than the WWII generation and so on. Maybe harder isn't necessarily better?
    I'm :no_mouth: on that!
    =)

    There are definitely benefits of technology nowadays, but...progress laced with ramifications, I think. What has been lost in exchange for the gain(s)?

    The actual teaching of children, by their parents, to help them become strong, independent and responsible adults...pretty admirable from my childless perch (hell, which is WHY I'm on my childless perch). It takes effort and will and forethought - something that, unfortunately, isn't all too common lately.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    I like Clint Eastwood and RogueStoner and all, but based on my experience with the men and women in my life, "pussification" should mean make stronger, not make weaker.

    To say otherwise is not only sexist but, in my opinion, it's incredibly ignorant.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    dankind said:

    I like Clint Eastwood and RogueStoner and all, but based on my experience with the men and women in my life, "pussification" should mean make stronger, not make weaker.

    To say otherwise is not only sexist but, in my opinion, it's incredibly ignorant.

    I say wussification.
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • rssesq
    rssesq Fairfield County Posts: 3,299
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65mtE2TN1w
  • RogueStoner
    RogueStoner Sunny AZ Posts: 1,716
    deadendp said:

    Yup. I'm thankful that my kid still wants to research by book, but she is one of the few.

    I agree. We are raising soft kids who can do for themselves, want everything handed to them and have a heart attack if there is a tough time.

    We put a conscious effort into not trying to "save" our kid but to give her coping strategies, but still... Easier life than what we had.

    At least you're trying (and doing a damn fine job at it, I might add).
    Case in point: the calls I get from school for every tiny ache. I'm not talking anything contagious, that's a different story. It used to be that you'd go lay down in nurse's office for rest of the class and off you go to the next class. And that's only if you were really sick. Now it's, "let's call your mommy to pick you up". I call b*lls**t!
    Also, what's up with wanting allowance to clean up their own room and own messes?
    Sometimes I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone.

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